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from Adam. If they passed him in the corridors of the white House, it didn't mean anything to them because they didn't know who this man was. But I had known him a long time so I always greeted him.

I realized that he was very long-faced. He would permit himself the ordinary smile that you have when you meet an old acquaintance. If I said, “Good morning. How are you?”, He would look very solemn and say, “My health is very well if that's what you mean. Nothing else is good.” That was pretty lugubrious. He was very long- faced about everything.

I don't think he disapproved of what the President was doing. I'm sure, in fact, that it was cuite the opposite. I said to him once, “Don't you think that the President has taken a good line, that these are good and Practical things to do?”

He said, “I suppose so, but it's too late.”

I said, “What do you mane ‘too late?’ We just got here the other day. We couldn't do anything before we got here.”

“It's too late. The time has run out.”

Well, I just saw that that was his line.

On one occasion, toward the middle or end of April, when we had only been in Washington about six weeks, I met